Nightshade might seem nothing more than a prop in the film but she is more than she appears to be
Black Panther might depict a fantasy of the continent but the its contribution to black geekdom remains important
David Adjaye takes on Johannesburg’s Hallmark House, a residential project that aims to find its own place in the city’s architectural schizophrenia.
Why did the news of a school teacher having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old pass without a glimmer, asks Mpho Moshe Matheolane.
Mpho Moshe Matheolane hopes that life post-Christmas – and post-Mangaung – proves to be as busy as this past year.
The Nina Simone biopic debacle shows there will always be a problem when the representation of another is concerned, writes Mpho Moshe Matheolane.
After President Jacob Zuma called on his ancestors to help secure his next term, Mpho Moshe Matheolane wonders how the gods would react to this.
History will judge Jacob Zuma for his accomplishments and failures. But we might already know what it will say about him, says Mpho Moshe Matheolane.
Art heists can be dramatic, even entertaining, but are irrelevant to the lives of most people, writes Mpho Moshe Matheolane.
Mpho Moshe Matheolane ponders the release of the Mandela notes and the myths surrounding South Africa’s first democratically elected president.
History is a means of peering into the past in order to get a sense of one’s present and who we are as a people, writes Mpho Moshe Matheolane.
Mpho Moshe Matheolane wonders why people of South Africa are quick to complain about the country but slow to get up and do something to fix it.
The reaction to Jub Jub and his co-accused’s guilty verdicts shows the public might not understand the role of the law, writes Mpho Moshe Matheolane.
Mpho Moshe Matheolane bemoans how the ANC allowed the well-functioning town of Mafikeng to deteriorate into the sad state it is now.
A new exhibition, Conversations, has Mpho Moshe Matheolane marvelling at the city of Johannesburg and the different people that live in it.
A collaboration between the Market Photo Workshop in Jo’burg and the French Rencontres d’Arles has resulted in the Social Landscape photo project.
Mpho Moshe Matheolane wonders to what extent the law is looked upon with a scrutinising eye outside the fields of law practice and academia.
After attending a discussion on the 20th Century Masters exhibition, Mpho Moshe Matheolane questions the role of history in art.
Even with all the challenges and failures the education system in SA is subject to, arts education is not just a luxury, writes Mpho Moshe Matheolane.
What benefits can be had from art in a young developing democracy such as ours? Mpho Moshe Matheolane takes the arts back to the classroom.
